Article From Newindpress
Wednesday September 26 2007 13:27 IST
SISIR PANIGRAHY
BERHAMPUR: Maoists, with their long cherished plan to set up a ‘red corridor,’ have taken a new roadmap. The red patch joining Andhra and Chhattisgarh will pass through several newly ‘taken over’ areas of south-western Orissa.
Armed Naxals have been sighted these days along Ganjam-Kandhamal border. Their movements were also reported from remote areas of Bhanjanagar, Bargarh, Sorada, Mujagarh, Baibili and Tarsing in Ganjam district close to Kandhamal border. The dense jungles and hilly terrains of this region are conducive for safe movement of ultras.
If their plan to establish the ‘red corridor’ along Ganjam- Kandhamal-Boudh-undivided Sambalpur border succeeds, it will give them the much-needed passage between their bastions in Andhra and Chhattisgarh.
The Maoists have already established bases in Gajapati and Rayagada districts. They have now started their campaign with wall posters with a warning note for the sympathisers of local landlords, police and government in the inaccessible border areas of Ganjam-Kandhamal districts.
Police from both the districts have started joint combing operations along with the anti-Naxal squad. According to sources, the Naxals have slipped in to South Orissa after mounting pressures in the aftermath of an unsuccessful bid on the life of former AP chief minister N Janardhan Reddy.
All police stations in Ganjam district in this region have been put on high alert. Ganjam SP R K Sharma said extra patrolling and public relation drive in remote tribal pockets of the area have been taken up to keep tribals away from Maoist propaganda.
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